From dd898dd8bd6edd95323cb4fa54564ed2dcdfdd65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Dunn <robin@alldunn.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:45:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Only use locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] if
 sys.getdefaultencoding() is still "ascii"

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@33025 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 wxPython/src/_core_ex.py | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
index caaf2a8058..45f7eeab6d 100644
--- a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
@@ -39,18 +39,21 @@ if RELEASE_VERSION != _core_.RELEASE_VERSION:
 # different on different platforms.  For example, please see
 # http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html for differences
 # between the common latin/roman encodings.
-import locale
-import codecs
-try:
-    default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
-    codecs.lookup(default)
-except (ValueError, LookupError):
-    default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
+
+default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
+if default == 'ascii':
+    import locale
+    import codecs
+    try:
+        default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+        codecs.lookup(default)
+    except (ValueError, LookupError):
+        default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
+    del locale
+    del codecs
 if default:
     wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding(default)
 del default
-del locale
-del codecs
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
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